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- Caption: What never happens in my dreams.
- Caption: What happens in my dreams at least every other week.
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Well my dreams actually tend to go with what I have been thinking before sleeping lately…
so I actually enjoyed living in Terran Ascendancy on Deneb in Stellaris setting 😀
I always get the “It’s finals week, and you suddenly realize there’s this one class you completely forgot to attend.” nightmares. And I left college 35 years ago!
Luckily for me those dreams about university years seem to have subsided… I do get dreams about my work, but I love my work… Dreaming about programming isn’t actually a negative thing for me…
I wish I had dreams like either end of that spectrum. It would be nice not to have to hear about them on the news and have that horrifying feeling of the potential to save lives wasted because I couldn’t either make sense of it at the time or convince anyone of such events when I do understand them.
I have the, halfway through semester and haven’t been attending that core class.
I wonder what my brain would think of me: I managed to find an antiderivative correctly, but I failed to substitute the extrema the proper way…
I’d be the smart(ass) guy that actually gives the solution to the problem but I don’t know how to do this stuff.
@ oledakaajel:
Integrate by parts; do polynomial division on the x^3/(1+x^2) part
I’m not even gonna try integrating this. There’s a reason I avoid teaching Calculus. Functional Analysis is with way less annoying shit like this, I can teach it without too much prep time.
I have one where I’m going to college and I’m losing track of courses and assignments and always afraid that I won’t be able to cut the mustard. And its been over thirty years since I’ve been a full time student.
Since I couldn’t find it already on the titular subreddit….
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildyinfuriating/comments/a2j5n5/sandra_woo_mildly_infuriating_dreams/
And according to WolframAlpha, the answer is (-2 + pi + log(4))/12, or about 0.21.
erejnion wrote:
The calculus class I’m a TA for isn’t even touching these kind of integrals. I sort of feel sorry for the people moving on to the next calculus…but at the same time calculus is my least favorite math, so…
Dreams are weird. I don’t even know why people would want to “live their dream” or “have their dreams come true” or something. That sounds like a recipe for some kind of weird horror plot.
I have dreams (among other things I remember even less clearly) about doing stuff with my dad like years ago (before realizing that he’s brain-damaged and in a wheelchair now and really shouldn’t be, say, driving that car) and about sleeping in on exam days (which I’ve been done with for years now – and it only happened that one time, dammit). Sometimes, when I have spend all day pretty much on a single topic, typically a work of fiction (mostly TV-shows or video games) it follows into my dreams (typically in some distorted way).
My most infuriating dream is the kind that makes me get back up. Did I set the alarm? Did I leave the tap running? Did I close the door when I came in?
The thing about dreams — mine certainly, but probably everybody’s — is that you are typically all sorts of confused and just not capable of thinking clearly. I can’t even really read in my dreams! Not books anyway — the words just won’t form into coherent sentences. I’ll dream that I’m wrapping up a project at work, and I’ll start to explain it to someone, and I suddenly realize that my explanation isn’t making any sense and I don’t actually know what I’m supposed to be doing. Frankly I doubt that anyone is capable of working through a challenging math problem in a dream!
I have the “they realized you skipped a class so now you have to go back” one, tho it evokes more ennui and weariness than fear. I also have some similar to what 627235 described, where I’m doing something with my dad and suddenly realize that he’s dead, but that’s more sad than annoying.
@ jb:
Yup, that’s how dreams work. That’s why it’s a common tell for people working on lucid dreaming, the easiest way is to train yourself to look at your watch twice every time you feel something’s weird: if it changes, you’re dreaming.
jb wrote:
Doesn’t that just drive you up a wall? I keep dreaming I’m back in the Army and I retired almost twenty years ago.
jb wrote:
My brain actually creates written dialogue for books, decent dialogue. It probably writes better than I do when awake.
But my dreams are weird in all kinds of ways. I’m not always my actual gender, and I frequently jump around from person to person like it’s a movie, but I’m actually inside the person. Sometimes it feels like I’m each person, but others it’s clear that I’m not and am more or less watching what’s going on. Most of the time when it’s clear it’s not actually me, it’s some incredibly epic story.
Most of my dreams seem to center around frustration. (I apparently don’t get enough of that in real life, so my brain has to invent more.) I’m trying to do something or get somewhere, but I run into one obstacle after another. And the very worst? That would be the dreams where I can’t get to sleep.
On the upside, I do get the occasional celebrity guest star. Why is Sean Connery delivering my mail? Eh, it seemed to make perfect sense at the time.
Yes, we all know our brain is plotting against us.
Especially when a nice dream slowly but inevitably turns into a nightmare.
I often dream up whole murder mysteries. Or where people try to kill me. Then there are times where I dream I could fly but I do need to flap my arms and it is super exhausting to the point I get unable to fly any longer. Getting my exercise in even while I’m sleeping!
Huh, my odd dreams put me back in bootcamp.
@ JacopoX1993:
As the resulting polynom has complex zeros, this can be a bit difficult. It’s better to use substitution instead.
I wonder if this is an actual reddit page.
it is. and a good one too.
It’s a lot like my own dreams, except in mine I’d be naked, in the wrong class and have forgotten my schedule.
Stop spying on my dreams, Novil!
Brett Bellmore wrote:
Thisguy wrote:
And you two as well! 😛
My dreams are often a weird mix of my reading, gaming and real life. None it makes sense when I wake but seemed real and logical in my dream. The worst part is I remember less of it the longer I”m awake. It’s usually gone by the time I get fully awake.
Coding fever dreams. O_O
Though, now that I think about it, the code I write today looks an awful lot like my worst nightmares from a few years back. But totally, if I got stuck with a math equation, it will eventually cover the entire blackboard and I will find myself wondering mid-dream if I made a step someplace a few steps back. Though, in real life, I tend to find that math tests are stupid. You always get the wrong solution the first time. That’s life. Every gets it wrong I fathom. You go back, see what you screwed up on and keep trying until you get it right ^_^. Unless you’re on the devops team for Apollo 13, being right initially is no wheres near as important as being able to see you’re wrong and the patience to see it through. Rarely does this happen in the span of an hour, either. Math is an art that takes time, to appreciate each little delicious section and even play with the various ways you can combine them together for code that’s just a little bit more efficient, and maybe even a bit clever. 😀
@ Tina Böttger</b
I meant division with remainder: x^3/(x^2+1)=x – x/(x^2+1)
It’s interesting how the “best” nightmares are simply your own life 5 or 10 years back. It’s not just school. Previous jobs, or even a previous apartment, would work too. It’s like “Why am I back here? I escaped!” The sad part is that I’ll probably feel the same about where I am right now in about 5 or 10 years.
627235 wrote:
I want to see that movie. Someone either wishes or is cursed with all their dreams coming true. Literally. Terror and hilarity ensues.
In my younger years, I used to cook for a living, something I haven’t done for over 14 years. Yet I still have the disaster cooking scenario dream where there is too much to do and I’m failing.
One type of dream I have chased is a lucid dream. Where you know it’s a dream and therefore control it. I’ve managed it a bare few times over my life possibly because I’m such a light sleeper normally. Knowing I’m asleep tends to make waking up way too easy. Almost like surfacing from a deep dive.
627235 wrote:
When people talk about having their dreams come true, it’s not about the actual sleep-time dreams – it’s about daydreams, thinks they WANT to dream about.
Manabi wrote:
Are you sure the dialogue is so great – or does it only SEEM good while dreaming? Few times I actually managed to remember, after waking up, both something creative from dream AND how great it felt. And, well, it usually didn’t make sense in reality, much less being actually good.
This people talking to their own brains trend in comics is the ultimate esquizofrenism.
There is a way of controlling your dreams to a certain extent, known as lucid dreaming. I tried it, and it works sometimes. But one should put some effort off-dream to make it work, and even more effort to make it stable.AFAIK the techniques were first described by Castaneda.